Michael Woods

Volume 137 (2009-2010) – Editor in Chief
Volume 136 (2008-2009) – Features Editor

Stories

April 8, 2010
Last Words
The football and women’s rowing teams take top honours as the best male and female teams.
March 26, 2010
First-annual Journal Sports awards
March 19, 2010
The scourge of anonymity
The 15 licenced Student Constables are working about five shifts a week to keep up with the demand for bouncer duties.
March 12, 2010
StuCons operate illegally
Bassist Dean Baxter and lead singer Menno Versteeg of Montreal band Hollerado, seen here playing a show during one of their two tours of China in the past year.
February 18, 2010
Holler at these boys
Receiver Scott Valberg is tackled after receiving a catch during the Gaels’ Yates Cup victory against the Western Mustangs on Nov. 14.
January 22, 2010
Gaels go up a level
Offensive linemen Jonathan Koidis, Dan Bederman and Vince De Civita sit in the stands of Richardson Stadium before leaving for Quebec City on Tuesday.
November 27, 2009
Clearing a path to the final
The Queen's Gaels celebrate their Vanier Cup victory after a comeback 33-31 victory over the Calgary Dinos in Quebec City on Saturday.
November 27, 2009
Vanier Cup champs
Mechanical engineering professor Joshua Pearce says with support from the Ontario Power Authority, Queen’s could stand to profit 60 to 70 cents per kilowatt hour of energy used by switching to solar power.
November 6, 2009
Queen’s could profit from solar panels
Arkells said they’re looking forward to playing Clark Hall Pub on Thursday night.
November 3, 2009
Straight out of Steeltown
The men’s curling team ended fourth in the province last year.
October 30, 2009
Sweeping the competition
AMS Internal Affairs Commissioner Lucas Anderson says Assembly didn’t follow procedure when it voted down part of Queen’s Backing Action on Climate Change’s plebiscite question.
October 30, 2009
AMS ‘procedural error’ costs plebiscite question
Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane in his office last February.
October 13, 2009
Deane appointed McMaster's new president
Increases in oil prices kickstarted the recent recession, but filling up at the pump is bound to get more expensive as oil becomes scarcer, according to Jeff Rubin’s book.
October 2, 2009
The good old days will return
September 29, 2009
A step in the right direction
Former head coach Harold Parsons (right) with protégé Matt Holmberg, who will be assuming Parsons’ duties this season.
July 28, 2009
Holmberg to take hockey helm
Former Gael Adam Simac visited his alma mater along with the Canadian men’s volleyball team to play Australia last week.
July 28, 2009
Clash of the hemispheres
July 28, 2009
Queen's Centre opening delayed by flood
Queen’s professors Dr. Karen Yeates and Gary Kibbins stand at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro.
February 26, 2009
Moving mountains for health
Masturbation can help improve sex with a partner because it allows you to find out what stimulates you sexually.
February 11, 2009
If it feels good, do it
Constable Mark Aird says all Queen’s students he has arrested have talked themselves into jail.
February 5, 2009
Riding with Kingston’s finest
ASUS president-elect Jill Evans and vice-president-elect Josh Michelson celebrate their win last night. The team won with 1,547 votes, or 68 per cent of the vote.
January 28, 2009
Josh and Jill climb ASUS hill
Western’s $35 million recreation facility, financed mostly by students, opened last Monday.
January 16, 2009
Construction left, right and Centre
An estimated 10 million Canadians say they have used marijuana at least once in their lives.
November 27, 2008
Weeding out anti-drug attitudes
Frances Henry says the term “culture of whiteness” isn’t unique to Queen’s.
November 14, 2008
Confronting a culture of silence
November 7, 2008
Election fever and rightly so
October 31, 2008
Walking scared
MCRC vice-president Jessica Cha says she’d like to see a stricter discipline system in residence.
October 2, 2008
Peer-based discipline ‘more fair’
Queen’s Computing Science professor David Skillicorn says campaign advertisements are harder to analyze than speeches because they’re more staged.
September 30, 2008
Queen’s own spin doctor
September 28, 2008
Street party ‘nothing out of the ordinary,’ Toronto police officer says
Alberta administers Diploma Tests in core subjects to grade 12 students. The tests count for 50 per cent of the students’ marks.
September 19, 2008
Making the grade
Textbook costs have increased at 278 per cent of the rate of inflation over the past 12 years.
September 12, 2008
A price tag for the books
Students try out for the Queen’s Sailing Team on Lake Ontario Thursday. The team recently purchased 10 new boats with the Kingston Yacht Club’s help.
September 9, 2008
Knot your average sport
Kathy Xu, Sci ’99, says the Olympics should be about more than just athleticism.
July 29, 2008
When sports and politics collide

Photos

AEPi President Daniel Zimmerman says he has met with the AMS and the administration to discuss fraternities on campus.
April 1, 2010
Fraternities skirt school ban
April 1, 2010
Issue in Photos
As of Feb. 28, Common Ground was $58,280.99 in debt compared to $42,619.50 in Feb. 2008.
April 2, 2009
AMS services not immune to recession
John Burke, director of Odyssey Travel, says Eurail passes are a great option for rail and ferry travel in Europe.
April 2, 2009
Images from vol. 136, issue 40.

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